Which is this little bee or fly or something?

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Sep 04, 2009

It hovers like a helicopter and gets stationary in flight on flowers. Look at its snout! Small insect... which is this please?

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Sep 08, 2009

This is a bee fly (Diptera: Bombyliidae); their larvae are parasitoids/predators on the larvae of ground-nesting bees or wasps.

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